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Blizzard has teamed up with Twitch to announced the TeSPA Collegiate Hearthstone Championship that sees teams of three facing off against one another in an effort to win a share of the $100,000 scholarship pool. Registration is open from now through September 25th with season play taking place from September 28th through November 10th and the championships to be held in January 2016.
During this past weekend’s PAX Prime, several interesting tidbits of news for Trion’s game were released. We will be covering Devilian, Rift and Atlas Reactor, but some notable news was also released for Trove, Defiance and ArcheAge.
Fast forward to today, and we have the recent deployment of the v2.3.0 patch that is the largest to date and one that is packed with a new location, a new season tracker and Kanai’s Cube, a modernized version of Diablo 2’s Horadric Cube. What it all comes down to is that this is the meatiest, game experience patches in D3’s history, short of the RoS expansion itself.
The Gloria Victis team has announced that a new expansion has been applied to the game that includes twice as much real estate to explore, new locations to capture and upgrade, new town, new NPCs, enemies and more. In addition, backers from the "Count" level and up will receive a digital Gloria Victis artbook as thanks for their support.
Square Enix has announced the release date for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. PC, PlayStation 4 and XBox One players can now preorder the game that is set to hit live service on February 23, 2016.
Elder Scrolls Online PC servers are down for maintenance pending the deployment of the Imperial City DLC. Servers went down at 8:00 am Eastern / 5:00 am Pacific and will be unavailable for an indeterminate amount of time. Be sure to keep an eye on the ESO forum for the official announcement of when servers are back online.
Immediately after seeing the reveal for Atlas Reactor, Trion’s new game, at PAX Prime this weekend Rob Lashley and Bill Murphy were given a glimpse of the new content coming to Trion’s flagship offering, RIFT. These will be added in RIFT’s update Into the Wilds. Read on for Rob’s synopsis of what Trion has in store.
Our intrepid PAX team met with Taehoon Kim, CEO of nWay and Steig Hedlund, Vice President, Creative on day two of PAX Prime 2015 where we got our hands on the mobile version of Chronoblade and editor Bill Murphy fan-boied over sitting next to Steig.
After five years in development, including a year in Beta, on this day Merle Ambrose and Gamma the Owl started guiding students through picking a class and preparing for that first fearsome fight with the Jade Oni (Malistaire didn’t even think to show up until a few months later)! Now that it’s been seven years and over 50 million registered accounts later, it’s time to let the numbers do the talking while we take a look back at seven big moments in the history of Wizard101.
After five years in development, including a year in Beta, on this day Merle Ambrose and Gamma the Owl started guiding students through picking a class and preparing for that first fearsome fight with the Jade Oni (Malistaire didn’t even think to show up until a few months later)! Now that it’s been seven years and over 50 million registered accounts later, it’s time to let the numbers do the talking while we take a look back at seven big moments in the history of Wizard101.